ENGL 90719 - Poet's Prose

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course examines American prose poetry of the past century, looking at the ways in which it has intervened in questions about what poetry is and how it relates to other literary forms. We will start off with a brief look at the classic French prose poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé, in order to see how a parabolic prose participates in the dissolution of genres that begins in the nineteenth century. Then, we move to the American poets who use prose poetry to interrogate language philosophically, turning the sentence into a unit of poetic composition: Gertrude Stein, W.C. Williams, Robert Creeley, and John Ashbery. Finally, we will look at a variety of recent writers for whom prose poetry is the site for an encounter between narrative and poetry: Paul Auster, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Theresa H.K. Cha, Kathy Acker, Laura Mullen, and Renee Gladman.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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